The individual will work within the Product Management team to provide a cost effective, online trading solution that consistently delivers an excellent customer experience backed up by efficient business processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Development:
Working closely with Senior Management to identify areas of potential development
Competitor product analysis to ensure E*Trade products are market leading
Liaison with the Business teams to create appropriate Business Cases and requirements documents
Managing the change control process during delivery of these requirements
Work with Business teams to create business procedures and marketing campaigns that support the new initiatives
Maintaining excellent relationships with all of the business teams : Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, complaince and Operations.
Monitor Cost and revenue product models to ensure profitable solutions for E*Trade
Analysis and ongoing improvement of the existing E*TRADE service
Product Delivery:
Work with the development team for product delivery that meets requirements
Negotiation of appropriate cost of development, ensuring the cost is in line with the development required and the needs of the business
Management of product delivery timelines into the business
Perform QA activities and liaise with the business teams to coordinate testing and release of new products
Quality Assurance:
Working with all departments in the business to establish good QA procedures, and the documentation of this
Working with IT team to coordinate scheduled system updates
Maintain high availability of the online service
Escalation of issues to the product manager as appropriate
Monitor vendor announcement for ongoing business impact
Key Skills :
Business skills:
Clear, proven understanding of and a passion for Market trading. Understanding instruments such as Equities, CFDs, Futures and spreadbetting; and how these are executed via world exchanges.
Good understanding of the front-office and back-office business processes within the trading environment
Can understand and effectively document and present unambiguous business functionality.
Vendor liaison and contract negotiation
Projects skills:
Strong project skills
Can demonstrate, a clear understanding of a project methodology
Can demonstrate a good track record in project delivery
Technical skills:
Good understanding of web technologies
Good understanding of financial back-office systems and how they operate
Understanding of development life cycle
Personal skills:
Excellent, efficient communicator
Tenacious and thorough with proven attention to detail. Desire to see a project through to it's best possible conclusion, whatever it takes
Good interpersonal skills. This is a role that requires a high level of co-ordination.
A
trade automation, connectivity and compliance solution, the SunGard
Transaction Network (STN) links institutions throughout the financial
services community to facilitate end-to-end transaction processing.
With
more than 4,500 client firms in 60 countries managing more than $12
trillion, Advent has established itself as a leading provider of
mission-critical applications for investment management operations of
all sizes and strategies.
QUMAS
is a global compliance software company offering a complete Enterprise
Governance, Risk and Compliance solution with over 250 customer
deployments.
Belzberg
Technologies has been at the forefront of the electronic trading
evolution from the very beginning, and continues to provide world-class
service, execution and technology to the securities industry.
